Wood County, TX Genealogy Research Community on FacebookAnother reason to be surfing on Facebook is the page: You might be from Quitman, Texas if you remember when (https://www.facebook.com/groups/244596198905170/). It is rich with information about people and events which have happened in Quitman. I wish that someone would start separate pages like this for all the towns and communities in the county. Thanks [...]
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Notes for Developing Innovations in Online Digital Research Disclaimer It’s not all online and never will be. Just like printed sources, you must take online information with a grain of salt until you check the quality of its sources. Well-intentioned people sometimes make mistakes. Sometimes life intervenes and the mistakes do not get corrected before [...]
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The following map is from a publication from the office of former Texas Congressman Wright Patman. It shows present and former post office locations in the county. Permission to reprint provided credit is given to the author.
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Exciting news from Director Delene Allen is that very soon we will be able to search the Quitman Public Library catalog of holdings online from the library website from our home computers connected to the internet. This means that we can find what is available and reserve books from home. Also, we will have access [...]
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The Wood County Texas Genealogical Society’s $500 matching contribution to the Quitman Public Library along with the same amount contributed to the library by Uncle John’s Coffee House of Quitman will result in the library version of Ancestry.com being available to the general public (and society members) at the library in the very near future. [...]
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Prospects for Ancestry.com to be available soon at no charge for patrons at the Quitman Public Library are looking good with donations in the works to the library by the Uncle John’s Coffee House of Quitman and the Wood County Genealogical Society. Uncle John’s Coffee House is an organization in Quitman which raises money for [...]
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Please go to Facebook.com and open an account. Then go to this page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/woocotx/ and subscribe or like. ( I forget what the button at the upper right of that pages says.) You don’t have to (repeat have to — all else is your choice or not) give Facbook much more information that your name [...]
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TechSoup.org – Technology by the Bowlful for Non-Profits 09/17 by mysociety | Blog Talk Radio.
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By Mary Harrell-Sesniak “Genealogy is not just a pastime; it’s a passion.” Genealogy Favorites and Freebies. Everyone has favorites, and I am no exception, especially when it comes to free genealogy websites. They don’t completely replace subscription sites but are a wonderful starting point for your research. RootsWeb, of course, is my top pick, not [...]
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Ancestry.com is offering free until Sept. 5 it’s immigration collection records. You can see more about the offer and what you have to do to access these free records by taking a look at this post from Randy’s Seaver‘s Genea-Musings blog.
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